Description

656-1/30/1397

RIVERS STREET (North side)
No.24 and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as: RIVERS STREET (North side) No.16. Nos 17-31 (consec))

12/06/50

GV
II
Terrace house, now flats. 1770-1775. Part of the Rivers Street development by John Wood the Younger.

MATERIALS: limestone ashlar to front, rubble to plinth to basement, rubble to rear, double pile parapeted mansard roof, Welsh Slate to front and rear, coped party wall to left with two ashlar stacks with some early clay pots.

EXTERIOR: three storeys, attic and basement, three-window front. First floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with friezes and cornices, lowered moulded stone sills on cut down console brackets. Second floor has three plate glass horned sashes in ovolo moulded architraves with stone sills. Ground floor has, to left, two plate glass horned sashes in splayed reveals with stone sills, to right, a six-panel door with flush, fielded and glazed panels with C19 cast iron door furniture, one pennant step in painted pedimented Doric doorcase, three steps to pennant paved crossover.

Basement has two six/six-sashes in plain reveals with stone sills, small plastic window under crossover, door not visible in recess, crossover partially infilled in ashlar, limestone area steps with slate inserts in treads and wrought iron handrail. Double dormer with plate glass sashes. Band course over ground floor, modillion cornice and coped parapet, lead hopperhead at eaves to right.

Rear elevation has six/six-sashes, plate glass to double dormer, small single storey extension.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wrought iron railings and gate with shaped heads on limestone bases.

HISTORY: Rivers Street was developed by John Wood the Younger on three parcels of land: Nos. 1-11 constructed in conjunction with Catharine Place on ground conveyed on perpetual leasehold from Sir Benet Garrard to Wood and Brock as his trustee 19/20 December 1766. Nos. 16-28 and 36-47 Rivers Street with areas behind Nos. 46 and 47 on ground conveyed from Rivers Estate (owned by Sir Peter Rivers Gay) to Wood 5 March 1768 for 99 years. Nos. 28-35 Rivers Street were constructed in conjunction with Russell Street on ground bought by John Wood and Andrew Sproule as his trustee from Thomas and Daniel Omer 30 December 1768 on perpetual freehold rents. Strip of ground on which Nos 12-15 and 48-50 Rivers Street constructed probably never acquired by Wood. Sites of Nos. 12-15 were conveyed from Rivers Estate to Thomas and James Beale on 30 December 1774 and 16 October 1776 on perpetual freehold rents.

A number of different Bath builders were responsible for implementing Wood's overall design, re Ison.

SOURCES: building leases and rate books; Walter Ison, The Georgian Buildings of Bath (2nd ed. 1980), 233

Listing NGR: ST7478665451

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26688758

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)